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Re: (erielack) DL&W Place names
Charles_Walsh_@_Berlex.com wrote:
>If memory serves, Denville, NJ has a sister city in France and the two
>towns have some sort of ongoing exchange program. But I don't know if the
>French town is named Denville or not.
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Den Brook after which the township was named in 1917 has been named that
since the 1700s. Denville was a village in Rockaway Township before that.
I do not remember anything about a French sister city but there may be.
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>STEVEZ10_@_aol.com wrote:
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>>How about Denville?? Anyone know how this town got its name?? I do know
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>>there are many DAnville's, but there is only one DENVILLE in the entire
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>According to Bridging the Years in Denville, legend has that one of the
>early settlers of the area was a John Den who had a log house near
>where the present Den Brook entered the Rockaway river. However there
>is no mention of him in early histories of Morris County.
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